What about the giant tortoise? Huh?‽ Explain THAT brain boy!

@fabrisseterbrugghe8567

11 ай бұрын

I accept the tortoise, but can you explain the elephants on its back?

@darthagaddadavida9936

11 ай бұрын

I think I just had a near Joe Scott experience...

@movement2contact

11 ай бұрын

YOU GOT HIM!! You got him... 🥲

@georgejenkins8063

11 ай бұрын

Watching for the 2nd time...

@Acubens.

11 ай бұрын

Brain boy!!!!! Lol 🎉

How did the universe begin, you ask? Well, when two universes love each other very much....

I am 57, as a child I still recall when 1) continental shift was not widely accepted and 2) before any discussion of Big Bang and as you said infinite universe. They also believed the brain didn’t change much after puberty, neuroplasticity as it was later called didn’t exist.

@bujfvjg7222

10 ай бұрын

Psychedelics solve that problem....

@fractalelf7760

10 ай бұрын

@@bujfvjg7222 They have potential for some mental health issues, but also bring risks. No one under 22 or so should ever indulge nor should people with family histories including schizophrenia, bipolar, etc. By the way the issue at that time was lack of information, not psychedelics which were in their heyday.

@veramae4098

10 ай бұрын

Also, rockets could not work in vacuum. Nothing for them to push against.

@fractalelf7760

10 ай бұрын

@@veramae4098 Lol it was not 1947…

@graquinn4058

9 ай бұрын

People STILLL believe the brain thing and it drives me INSANE

Joe you do a super job. You're the most straightforward communicator I've seen on KZread. I can watch your videos and not be messed around with hype or nonsense. You also have a great sense of humor. To be straightforward and humorous and entertaining that is a winning combination. Keep up the great work!

@SuperUAP

6 ай бұрын

There's something on your nose..

Lemaitre was also a professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He was a priest and a legit scientist. Later in life he he became a computer programmer. He also got a Ph.D at MIT and fought in WW1

@SaHaRaSquad

11 ай бұрын

What a badass

@dross4207

11 ай бұрын

I find it odd that certain individuals can hold two contradictory belief systems, and function within each one as if the the other temporarily stops existing.

@tehfiredog

11 ай бұрын

@@dross4207 He very clearly didn't find them contradictory.

@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan

11 ай бұрын

@@dross4207 I can't link directly by "The Faith and Reason of Father George Lemaître by Joseph R. Laracy" explain how Lemaitre felt there was no contradiction. He even convinced the pope, who declared "the Big Bang theory does not conflict with the Catholic concept of creation"

@dross4207

11 ай бұрын

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan I meant the direct conflict between religion and science in general, because both contradict each other and both are mutually exclusive of each other. You can’t use “God” in science as nothing would never get explained, and science doesn’t deal with the supernatural and the imaginary. You must temporarily halt religious dogma to do science, and you have to stop being scientific to believe in a god.

As a nuclear engineer and physicist, I actually love the disclaimer and believe that we should all have them for multiple topics throughout life. Thank you for the engaging posts.

@TheMrAshley2010

11 ай бұрын

+

@thedon1262

11 ай бұрын

i think people should stopping with believing everything on the internet so joe doesnt have to use them anymore :') to me it sounds just natural to look up things before i believe them. i just believe joe did his homework, better then i could have done. but believing every word he saids as a truth is just foolish. there are only suggestions ;D

@tr7b410

11 ай бұрын

To see the fruits of their labor at S4 AREA 51 Google search Tr3b astra-hit the video icon-go to the night time footage of a Tr3b powering up its gravity wave propulsion system until it disappears. U.S. space forces near stellar workhorse.

@RomaInvicta202

11 ай бұрын

You probably understand what he was talking about; me, I got lost at quantum mechanics... ;)

@PazLeBon

11 ай бұрын

@@tr7b410 lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololollolol

Talking about time passing, I just remembered i started to watch your channel when you had literally few hundreds of followers .. incredible how far you went, 1.69M !!! You are clear proof that hard work pays off !! For those years you created incredible amount of great content !

@Ironmanhawk

10 ай бұрын

Bruh is it just me or does georges lemaítre look like Brendan Frazier

@ashleyobrien4937

9 ай бұрын

it's his brother, he has Fly's DeLorean..

I love that you can keep me engaged for over 13 minutes with a topic that is completely beyond my comprehension 😂.

@bsadewitz

6 ай бұрын

It's not beyond your comprehension. We say things like that because we define ourselves in terms of what we are and what we aren't. That is, we avow or disavow. We *must* do this, because the alternative is psychosis.

@bsadewitz

6 ай бұрын

Inherent in this project is self-deception. Think about it: how is it possible to lie to oneself? In order to deceive someone else, you have to know something the other person doesn't. But how can we know something we ourselves don't know? I am not saying that you are lying to yourself--at least not with the moral connotation commonly attached to it. I am illustrating a peculiarity of the architecture of beliefs about ourselves, umm, itself. See, I was just going to say, "my brain is broken from years of disuse, and so I couldn't think of a better way of phrasing it". I just did the thing I'm talking about.

@bsadewitz

6 ай бұрын

What I'm getting at is that your comprehension itself is not immutable. You now understand *something* that you didn't understand before, right?

@aceholepictures

6 ай бұрын

I find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter@@bsadewitz

A couple decades ago, I was having a random conversation about the beginning of the universe with some coworkers while working as a dishwasher at an Italian restaurant. I theorized the "Big Bang" was a local event, and our universe was one of many that naturally pop up throughout infinite space and time. I used a sponge covered in bubbles as a representation of how universes (bubbles) "pop" over time, or expand and pop up anew with a good squish. My fellow dishwashers nodded, whilst Mike the manager told us to, "Stop !%^%$#% around and get back to work!!". Couldn't stand that guy...

@Wodz30

11 ай бұрын

..........................Stephen Hawking wrote an entire book about this hypothesis lol. "Black Holes and Baby Universes". Great book! I wonder if you are actually Stephen Hawking. You said this was a couple decades ago and his book COINCIDENTALLY came out in 1993. OH NO I just stepped right into a conspiracy!!!!!!!! You bastard! You set me up :(

@jerrylee8261

11 ай бұрын

Johnny, he sounds like our civilian boss over a drafting crew we had at a base in Calif when I was in the USAF and we heard that JFK had been shot. We were all gathered around the radio listening to news when this SOB came in and loudly announced-Even if POTUS has been shot. Get back to work.- As if an hour would have made any difference that day.

@jswong8200

11 ай бұрын

You should reach out to Andrei Linde :D. I first read about his hypothesis in an issue of Scientific American back in 1994 and that brilliant model has gotten stuck in my mind till today.. and I wonder why no one has given it more serious thought

@johnnygee4206

11 ай бұрын

@@Wodz30 For the love of Honey-Nut Cheerios, don't start anymore conspiracy theories! We're at maximum capacity. I promise you I'm not Stephen Hawking's brain transplanted into a top secret deep state robot. Probably...😉

@johnnygee4206

11 ай бұрын

@@jerrylee8261 Yeah, I don't think I had it that bad, but higher-ups can be awful.

Joe is humble. Humility is a force multiplier when considering complex subject matter. Be like Joe.

@trubblebubble1

11 ай бұрын

I struggle with statements like this. I'm autistic so I don't have a grip on the bizarre need for people to be relatable when presenting scientific knowledge. It's no less true or false because the person that says it is relatable. Humility gives no advantage in interpretation or understanding of a subject. If people are swayed on a premise because the presenter is likable, then their opinion has no value.

@TheDennys21

11 ай бұрын

@@trubblebubble1 very true my man.

@Celeste-in-Oz

11 ай бұрын

I agree with you… hubris does get in the way

@JoeNietzsche

11 ай бұрын

@@trubblebubble1 I should also note that I agree with you. Arguments stand or fall on their own, internal, merits, not on the character, reputation or good looks of the argument maker.

@TheTobiasmez

11 ай бұрын

Maybe It's because when someone is humble they're open minded and can adjust to deeper nuances. Some people think they know all the facts and becomes dogmatic/narrow minded or arrogant, which makes them unable to see the whole picture. Understanding requires empathy

for years i have watched your videos, never missed one, this is the best of all of them, you were throwing down truths that are often overlooked in science, this is how we really learn and advance, good for you!

Honestly the idea of an infinite steady state universe with no beginning or end makes much more sense than a big bang for whatever reason starting everything out of some kind of weird tiny "no space no time" state.

@jordanrobinson9064

10 ай бұрын

A lot of people these days find the idea of an infinite steady state universe way too boring since they’re so hooked up on the idea that the universe must’ve had a beginning, like according to whom?

@claudiohess7692

9 ай бұрын

So, why all things are happening now, and not a million years in the future, or in the past??? Why now is now?

@nickcunningham6344

9 ай бұрын

@@claudiohess7692 Things will happen in a million years in the future and they did happen in the past, so what are you talking about exactly?

@basedgamerguy818

9 ай бұрын

​@@nickcunningham6344how come I'm in the present huh HUH? Like was that a real question

@keep_walking_on_grass

9 ай бұрын

now is the moment, when on a quantum level uncertainty collapses, entangled with the entire universe. it increases entropy, another r reason for the arrow of time. @@claudiohess7692

The fact you are honest and humble enough to acknowledge your lack of understanding in topics makes it more engaging for other people who are also learning. 🤙🤙

@cv6442

11 ай бұрын

And anyone who thinks they know everything is an absolute fool. So I already trust his judgement more after hearing the disclaimer 😄

@paulmacc41

11 ай бұрын

Yeah I especially liked the part where he admitted it's basically all bs

@nikthefix8918

11 ай бұрын

@@cv6442 Anyone who thinks they know ANYTHING for sure is an absolute fool! Did I just contradict myself? I made a truth claim so yes I did. 'Houston we have a problem'.

@cv6442

11 ай бұрын

@@nikthefix8918 hey now 50% of the time we are 100% correct!! 🤣🤣 I absolutely love how all of our lives we learn the basic building blocks of life, and then as we get older and more in-depth on subjects, we're like "ok, now forget everything you learned, because we actually know nothing" 😆😆😆

@acu01136

9 ай бұрын

Yet willing to dismiss an idea as it comes from a priest.... Very classy.

Well, you know the old saying: Even broken time is right twice a day.

@DendrocnideMoroides

11 ай бұрын

broken clock not broken time!!

@Master_Therion

11 ай бұрын

@@DendrocnideMoroides Whoa, you just broke my brain! Does that mean my brain is only right twice a day? :)

@tylerindersmith5480

11 ай бұрын

There are days?

@justinanderson267

11 ай бұрын

Well, space and time is linked so it's right, left, up, and down... Twice a day...

@Gelgisith

11 ай бұрын

@@justinanderson267 Don't forget before and after. 😊

I was driving in my car recently. I have a terrible sense of direction. Been picked on about it all my life. I was headed somewhere, with the aid of my phone's GPS, trying very to remember how I'd get there in the future so next time I went there I would not need my phone as a guide. I was looking at all the physical things around me. Trying to remember the church that was on that corner and that weird looking sign that was on that other corner and that tree standing over there. All those things when you are trying to remember how you get to where you are going. But, a song came on the radio and I started singing. And, I started remembering all the reasons I absolutely love the song. And, by the time I got to my destination, I realized, I'd forgotten, even though I was looking and (at least on some level) really trying to concentrate on everything around me, much of what I'd seen... all manner of little steps I'd taken to get to where I was going. I tried to go back exactly the way I'd come without the aid of my phone and found myself lost fairly quickly. It was as though the song on my drive to the destination had transported me into a different dimension where Time... memory and emotion and reason... had been, to some extent, suspended. I was "transported" elsewhere in my mind. I'd obviously been aware enough of what I was doing to pay attention to danger coming from cars or animals running out into the street or the directions my phone was giving me, but not enough to really pay attention to where I was in the Now. I couldn't shake the thought that this is relevant when it comes to my very perception of Time itself. I have been wondering, as a layman, if this mental ability to be, basically, in two headspaces at once, is not our biggest problem when it comes to understanding Time, its relationship with physical reality and causation? I recognize that I am terrible at spatial cognition. At concentrating and learning from the tasks I am engaging in, as I engage in them, when my mind wanders. The wandering itself often yields leaps in logic I would not have had, so it does have its merits. But yes, that is a far easier explanation. Still, could there be a correlation between when that happens and understanding Time itself and its relation to reality.

That disclaimer of yours is great, I finally subscribed :) I’ve watched videos of yours in the past. You are extremely well spoken and well read and I appreciate the humility.

Joe, I don't care about your academic background, nor the size of your forehead (it's fine, really). I like watching/listening to you because you seem enthusiastic about the things you talk about, you are fun and smart and you sum up interesting topics for our curious, lazy minds. Most of my conversations throughout the day are with my 2-year-old, so I'm just grateful for the impression of being included in a group of intelligent adults

@Chip_in

11 ай бұрын

Does he not like his receder? Not many any guys wake up and say I'm going baldrick today...l think pre-baldrick anxiety is a thing before full time baldrick is in play for good. I would not know my hair is too thick and I hate it and there's a cost every two weeks to tame the mane. Baldrick wouldn't be so bad no haircut's to pay for ⛳

@jumpinjohnnyruss

11 ай бұрын

And if it wasn't fine, it'd still be fine.

@TARS..

11 ай бұрын

that last sentence is way too real

@desperadox7565

11 ай бұрын

Just make sure your 2 year old gets interested in science and stuff. Then very soon you'll always have somebody for interesting discussions. They grow up so effing fast.😎

@dross4207

11 ай бұрын

As a single dad taking care of baby with a CHD, I spend four straight days isolated from anyone older than 18mo(outside of Ms Rachel, of course) and then work three 14hr days/shifts servicing gambling machines in bars(where I have found that no intelligent life resides), so these types of videos are my only solace and escape from “Hop Little Bunny” and drunken, gambling baboons.

One clarification. The Big Bang does not require that the universe was an "infinitesimally small point" at some point in its past. In fact the universe may have started off as infinite and expanded everywhere into the larger infinity that we see today.

@sterlingmullett6942

11 ай бұрын

Some infinities are larger than other infinities. 8^)

@Bryan-Hensley

11 ай бұрын

I think it could be an oscillation. It just happens to be expanding now.

@ArawnOfAnnwn

11 ай бұрын

@@Bryan-Hensley That's not a new idea either. There's a bunch of versions of cyclic universes and big bounces. None proven.

@JJacob94

11 ай бұрын

So it could technically be static and as large as it is now and then just expand into an even larger one, making the previous universe the infinitesimally small point of expansion?

@cromemako83

11 ай бұрын

We still hardly know anything - and that is exciting :)

This is interesting, and on a philosophical level it's basically how I've already viewed the universe for a while now (I'm a mathematician). I didn't realize there was an actual physics theory that fleshed it out.

@simon_does

8 ай бұрын

I share your experience!

@Conways_Euphonia

7 ай бұрын

Aren’t good mathematicians just called physicists? Lol

Oh! I have been looking at time as a physically occurring, "floating point" blockchain, and causal set theory seems to fit that idea perfectly. Good vid. I think what we'll find is that existence creates the potential for space, matter creates space and the potential for causation, causation leads to the breakdown of wider diffuse frameworks into more complex systems of a lower order, higher complexity gives rise to life and the potential for time, and life creates time. At some point we'll likely be able to tell where there is and isn't life in the universe, simply by where there appear to be changes in the character of physical causation, just as you can tell where people have lived by changes in the nature of the area. We are time, each of us is a wormhole from the past to the future, and because we are conscious, some of that causation in our time stream is under our direct control. The less involved with consensus reality we are, the more our time stream can be under our own direction. But, of course, as long as we participate in existence, we cannot consciously control all causation.

Love your videos. I also want to say, just because you aren't an astrophysicist shouldn't downplay how important videos like these are. I did well in school but I didn't enjoy learning. Now as an adult when I get to pick topics I'm interested in I LOVE learning and since I consider myself pretty smart, but with no higher education more simply explained videos like these are a godsend to help me understand better and sate my curiosity.

@Liz-gc6gn

11 ай бұрын

Agree. My son learned computer programming for AI after dropping out of college because it was too slow. He’s now a senior software engineer with a team. He also loves theoretical physics and has taught himself. College isn’t the end all be all.

You know, while I'm in the "have to get up and go to work tomorrow" camp generally, I'm incredibly happy that we live in a world where people are able to devote their considerable expertise to this line of thinking. Keep it up, hypernerds!

@jeremyroland5602

11 ай бұрын

Somebody's gotta grow the food, build the houses, pay the people growing the food, transport the food, manage money moving from one person to another, ek setter uh and what not, while the smart people think about these things

@smoothsailings8831

11 ай бұрын

its better to get up the SAME day you go to work. you wont be nearly as tired

@99Plastics

11 ай бұрын

@@jeremyroland5602someone got triggered about their 9-5 life lol

@jeremyroland5602

11 ай бұрын

@@99Plastics What? My comment is saying that the rest of us have to work jobs to help society function so that the smart people are able to focus on being smart. Read comments and understand them before you post things.

@terryjones2467

11 ай бұрын

​@jeremyroland5602 Don't feed the trolls Jeremy!!

Don't you just love how upbeat and positive all of Joe's videos are😂

“So let me explain it with a bunch of words I found I don’t understand” (he said coyly) lol 😂😂😂 you’re the best man!

While there were instances when some mathematical oddity led to discovery of physical phenomena (like negative energy solutions to Dirac equation that turned out to describe positron, the anti-matter counterpart of electron), it would seem that Nature has no obligation to follow all nice, consistent mathematical constructs with their physical realization. Just because we can _describe_ something it doesn't have to actually _exist._

@The_Viscount

11 ай бұрын

In the words of Neil deGrasse Tyson, "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."

@rearrangeyourguts

11 ай бұрын

This is spot on. Math after all is just a language after all. We can use it to understand things, because the way the language is constructed is universal, but just because we can use the words to say something doesn't mean there will be a physical counterpart always. What exists is just a subset of what is describable.

@VeteranVandal

11 ай бұрын

Which is why the whole approach of finding superstring theories that explained anything specific led to a bunch of nothing from the practical standpoint. It's better to just always try to go back to what can be probed experimentally. If that shows itself impossible to even attempt, we should pursue other avenues for the time being until we can find something we can at least attest wrong or unlikely wrong. String theories can never be wrong because you can adjust endless parameters in the middle of the model.

@paulmakinson1965

11 ай бұрын

Mathematics just describes relationships of cause and effect. The starting point in mathematics is a set of axioms. If the axioms (postulates) are true in the physical world, everything else you predict with mathematics is true. The mistaken theories in physics come from initial postulates that are false (time is absolute and space itself is just the setting in which things happen and does not act, are the erroneous postulates of classical mechanics, this was corrected with relativity).

@reekinronald6776

11 ай бұрын

We can describe anything mathematically. You can blindfold yourself and then randomly scribble a line with any number of curves and loops. You can then describe that line with a function. The more complex the line's path, the more complex the function. Because you can do this does not imply any significance to that line or curve. The only way math (or mathematical modelling) can indicate "existence" or understanding is if it is predictive. If a mathematical model cannot do this then it's simply mathematical exercise.

The idea that the larger exo-verse is a bunch of quantum membranes that have always existed and sometimes smack together to create a universe is a lot more satisfying of an answer than "There was nothing then singularity go bang."

@boobah5643

11 ай бұрын

Satisfying to you, maybe. Why quantum membranes? What produces them? I'm saying they're _less_ satisfying, but without an explanation for the 'reason' you have not explained anything, you've just added layers.

@randomnobody660

11 ай бұрын

@@boobah5643 The dude didn't say satisfying, but *more" satisfying. How can any explanation that involves singularity be satisfying at all? Singularity in any theory just means the theory doesn't work there, so replacing that with literally anything that has the slimmest chance of working is *more* satisfying. I also don't understand your insistence that the reason have an explanation. After all that explanation then needs its own, and so on and so forth. Unless you see no value except for some root primal cause, every explanation is progress. Afaik literally no theory in physics even tries to explain the initial condition.

@tannerdudeman

11 ай бұрын

@@boobah5643 what is more satisfying is that the quantum membranea wouldnt neccessarily have to have a "start" so the question of what made them wouldnt make logical sense. It would make sense that there is a quantum medium, made of nothing, that eventually makes "something" when they interact in specific ways. What is less satisfying abou the idea of simply a big bang from nothing is that there is no way to conceptualize the nothingness before the big bang because the moment there is a concept there is "something".

That was an excellent segue into your advertizement. Top notch.

New to your channel, your disclaimer and moral approach are great. You have a new subscriber. Interesting content !

Knowing that others are grappling with these issues (was there "a beginning" and will there be "an end", or is space-time "infinite").is reassuring. And knowing that Joe Scott is working to let the rest of us know. Well, it means that all is right with the world. Thanks.

@nikthefix8918

11 ай бұрын

Or it could just be a 'block' - finite but unbounded. All would be right with that kind of world for me.

@billyzig

10 ай бұрын

So, "all is right with the world" because of Joe. Say that out loud 10 ten times... and just admit that's one of the dumbest things you've ever said!

@orinblank2056

9 ай бұрын

Most people grapple with these issues if they actually think about it. What truly surprises me is that there are people out there who don't wonder about it. They learn that we have no idea why the universe exists and what tf is going on, then just think "huh, neat" and go on with their lives. I try not to think about it often, but sometimes I really just get hit with that feeling of derealization when I consider the scale of the universe and how little we as humans know about it

@synthemagician4686

9 ай бұрын

How can anything exist? Matter supposedly cannot be created or destroyed, which means matter could never have been created in the first place. Even if it can be created or destroyed, how the fuck did matter become a thing to begin with? Even if we imagine a god, or simulation hypothesis as having created matter, where did they come from? Where did it all truly start? It is a paradox with seemingly no possible answer. This boggles my mind every night.

@nikthefix8918

9 ай бұрын

@@synthemagician4686 This assumes a creation event in time which inevitably leads to the infinite regression problem you describe. Instead, if we consider space, time and mass-energy contents as representing a single manifold then the problem dissapears. In our terms, the Universe always was. The question of origins becomes meaningless.

As a person who also didn't understand most of those words that you said, I think you did a really great job of explaining what it was lol.

@epicproportionsmediaproduc6697

11 ай бұрын

You might as well just say “even though I can’t read, I think War and Peace is a really good book.” 😂

I really enjoyed your humble style, subbed!

Do Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology next. It's even crazier and the implications are wild. It might mean the previous universe was so small that the whole thing could fit in somebody's pocket, and our universe would be similarly small to an observer in a future universe.

@anselpeneloperainblossom-s3489

11 ай бұрын

“Honey? Have you seen my universe?” I now understand why the world has gotten so bewildering the last decade or so. We went through the wash.

@comancostin4623

11 ай бұрын

Neah,the real fucky part about that is that at the end of timelike infinity ,the end of time so to speak,distances and time don't matter anymore so the universe reverts basically to a hot singularity from a giant,cold and dead state.

@mknomad5

11 ай бұрын

@@comancostin4623 which, can't happen according to the principles in this video

@AH-lw2bj

11 ай бұрын

They've mapped the dark matter of the Universe and it looks surprising like a map of neurons in a human brain... So just for a second, imagine our universe is actually small and is the brain of a larger creature in a larger universe 🤯🤯

@comancostin4623

11 ай бұрын

@@mknomad5 yeah,I guess it's why both are just unproven theories right now.

I don't comment often, but I regularly watch/listen to your stuff. The "giant forehead" disclaimer mad me chortle whilst in the midst of a episode of depression. Thank you sir

@GrimmShadowsII

11 ай бұрын

Yeah that was definitely one of, if not THE, funniest disclaimers I've ever heard.

"Don't be scured" at the end killed me 🤣🤣

Now there's a T-shirt I need. "Give us one miracle, and we'll explain it from there." lol

I love Joe. His content is some of the best when I comes to taking complex crazy scientific news and info and making it into simple to understand digestible content.

@i_love_rescue_animals

11 ай бұрын

Agreed - but this stuff is still WAY over my little pea brain!

@trppstar

11 ай бұрын

hes the only science channel i watch besides vsauce

@ellen4956

11 ай бұрын

@@i_love_rescue_animals If you're interested, you might like to read Richard Feynman's "Six Easy Pieces" book as a place to start.

It’s interesting to hear words in English, spoken in a clear voice, and in a familiar pattern, and yet not being able to understand them at all when put into a certain sequence.

Nice video, I like the approach. Also, 07:43 - beautiful escalation of difficult words 😆 Is "Give us one miracle, and we'll take it from there" yours? If so someone should totally gift you one of those mugs. Cheers!

The universe may have had a starting point (at least this version of it) but even more mind blowing is the fact that existence itself has always existed.

@zchettaz

11 ай бұрын

What if, its actually consciousness that has always existed and this universe is just a frequency that our consciousnesses are tuned to, allowing us to experience the the same reality. Or perhaps we are in a simulation and the universe is only rendered into our existence when we can see it.

@NKWTI

11 ай бұрын

@@zchettaz either way, existence has never not existed. Not just talking about our existence as humans, but the act of something "being" overall

@zchettaz

11 ай бұрын

@@NKWTI Well, yeah, it couldn't exist without actually existing. But im not just as our existence as humans either, which would be self-consciousness. Im saying, what if consciousness is the overall act of "being", where our consciousness is a form of energy. Einstein once said: "energy can neither be created nor destroyed, rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one state to another".

Hey Joe, thank you for taking on these difficult topics. Your videos are truly entertaining and informative. I also have to go to work tomorrow, but I never want to stop learning so please keep taking on these challenging topics.

As a character once said in a Woody Allen movie, 'How would I know what the meaning of life is? I don't know how a can opener works.'

@JennySimon206

11 ай бұрын

The meaning of life is having your hands in the soil, the forest in your lungs and the sand between your toes. All proven to work better than antidepressants. We should be growing our soil and planting trees that won't even reach maturity in our lifetimes. We should be growing to pass down to our descendants. That imo, is the meaning of life. The soil is supposed to be alive with the same bacteria as our guts for one thing & same as in the ruminant animals guts, manure amends the soil. Circle of life. These soil microbes are what is responsible for making the nutrients u consume plant available. Without them, the supermarket veggies lack 90% of their nutrients. The chemicals we use to grow food, kills these soil microbes. Even chlorinated water, Oops. Well, if SHTF, we couldn't feed anywhere near this many people without these chemicals. Unfortunately, due to no soil microbes, we're feeding us food w the nutritional value of cardboard. I also have questions regarding hydroponics due to this. Perhaps psychedelic compounds aren't effected but nutrition sure is. Notice the taste difference in a home grown tomato vs dead chemical soil tomatoes? Taste = nutrients. They GMOd them to have more color, but can't make the have more taste yet apparently. Now they are spraying food w Apeel. Gonna make them even more nutritionally deficient sitting on the shelf indefinitely. Food is most nutritious freshly picked.

@Vaeldarg

11 ай бұрын

@@JennySimon206 This is YOUR meaning, not THE meaning of life. Life existed before farming, and there is also life outside of farming.

@SewingMink160

11 ай бұрын

AFAIK the meaning of life is to exist.

As always, excellent video. Thank you.

Got my thumbs up with the disclaimer!

Yeah Joe, my brain fell out on this one too. The part that made the most sense to me was “give us one miracle and we will take it from there”. Problem for me on that one is I don’t believe in miracles. 🤔

@audiodead7302

11 ай бұрын

I understood the 'hello fresh' part of the video. The rest made no sense.

Lemaître's deduction was a bit more complex than just thinking "It's expanding, so it came from a point" He basically took Einstein's equations of general relativity and looked for parameters that made it fit current observations. Then found that all parameter sets started from a singularity.

@theman1860

11 ай бұрын

How does that relate to the recent findings of the James Webb Telescope that seem (unconfirmed) to contradict the widely accepted Big Bang idea?

@adora_was_taken

11 ай бұрын

@@theman1860it doesn't, really. weren't those discoveries just that the oldest galaxies had more structure to them than we expected with current models?

@theman1860

11 ай бұрын

​ @adoracline Either those galaxies formed really really fast after the big bang for how old they were (which contradicts everything we know about galaxy formations, all our theories on the big bang and physics) , or they were remnants of an older universe (pre Big Bang/ Dr. Roger Penrose) or we live in a steady state universe.

@nikthefix8918

11 ай бұрын

Shouldn't we change the name from Big Bang Theory to Cosmic Extrapolation Theory and Singularity to Asymptote?

@inthefade

10 ай бұрын

iirc recently those “old galaxies” observed by JWST have been called into doubt and are already thought to be other celestial bodies just moving away from us faster than expected.

What if the expansion of the universe only SEEMS to be accelerating because farther away not only means farther in the past but also moving away faster and it's just time dilation making it look like the universe was expansing slower in the past? Mind you, this would still require expansion (whether steady or just slowing or accelarationg more slowly), which would mean that it might also still require a big bang beginning ... so maybe not quite "steady state" per se

That disclaimer earned you a subscriber mate. Great work! Keep at it!

I just want to say thank you. Your channel and a few others have kept me sane these last few months. Getting ready to start chemo next week. So thank you for all you do.

@Fire62Link

11 ай бұрын

I hope Chemo goes well for you. Sending prayers.

@lucashouse9117

11 ай бұрын

@@Fire62Link thank you! I really appreciate it!

@kellycroley6086

11 ай бұрын

I’m sending prayers and positive vibes your way. You will do amazing! ❤

@lucashouse9117

11 ай бұрын

@@kellycroley6086 thank you so much!

@Siamesemama1

11 ай бұрын

Me too,🙏

Joe Scott is one of the best. His vibe is super "regular" in a good way. Hope he gets happier and happier doing what he does. Hope he does it until the internet rusts over, flakes off and blows away in the wind.

I had a thought recently... Prolly not the first person to think this, but ive never heard anyone else say it. It occurred to me when I read about the Great Attractor; an area in space we are all being pulled towards. And i wondered how could everything be moving apart from everything else, yet still pulled towards the same thing. And how does everything in the universe emerge from a point. How can spacetime have a beginning and end and be infinite. Or finite without a beginnig and end And i thought about what if the universe collapsed in on itself. Usually when i think of a star collapsing into a black hole, i imagine a sphere getting smaller and smaller til its a point. But now i think of the universe like a sphere collapsing into a donut shape. But not a donut with a hole. So lets say the universe was like a spherical balloon of the earth and it collapsed at the "south" pole into the center of the globe, and this started a rotation of the surface downward towards the "southpole" Where it then gets sucked down a hole towards the core, where it gets squeezed thru a hole as tight as a singularity. Everything on the surface at that point is squeezed together. Then, at the north pole, the surface of the globe emerges from a tiny point and everything that was packed together begins moving away from everything else And the farther you get from the "north pole", moving south the faster everything on the surface will expand, until you hit the "equator" where everyting will be squeezed together again at the south pole. But its a 4d surface, so its not really that the surface is rotating...its more like we're experience moving along the 4d surface at the speed of light ...or something.

This made me think of Zeno's paradoxes. How about a vídeo about them?

Hardcore (it's 'metal'?) science subjects have always been intimidating for me and very difficult to understand. You not only make me laugh but help me parse through the metal. You're a gem!!

"Vesto Slipher" is the greatest supervillain name in science. The fact that his middle name was "Melvin" makes it complete.

@MarkLada

7 ай бұрын

I'm gonna name my next dog Vestaphalo Melvin Preston and call him Vesto Mel Pesto..

Back up a century and a half and there was talk of the Ether. A cloudy, vague soup from which matter was born. I think quantum foam is the modern incorporation of the same principle. First was the ether, next came dark matter, now quantum foam with bubbles and strings. All are just different names for yet to be explained phenomenon. Thanks Joe! You rock.

Well, I'm only an enthusiast, but I think its similar to Wolfram Physics, which I have been trying to make proper sense of and I think might be great. It new, and it is incomplete, but normal physics (mostly) emerges from the maths. The rules are very similar and the idea of causal logic at very small discrete intervals according to not yet known rules matches.

I find it comforting that you, Joe, and the great, late Terry Pratchett both agree on this fundamental of the universe: Time is Broken. This explains my life so well, especially why everything always seems to happen at the same time. It’s not my ADHD at work. It’s just that time is broken. Thanks for that. 😂

@davideyres955

11 ай бұрын

Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so. Ford Prefect. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

@ouknow1446

11 ай бұрын

Time gets confused with dysfunction.

@ouknow1446

11 ай бұрын

@@davideyres955 Time out! What about day time and night time? Is it the Sun up there or is it my imagination?

@genostellar

11 ай бұрын

@@ouknow1446 Well, the entire universe is translated through your senses to your mind, so it technically is all your imagination, in a way. It also really could be.

@ouknow1446

11 ай бұрын

@@genostellar Time is movement and all movement is forward. This is why there is no going back in time. If it was possible to stop all movement time would stand still. The closest example is when objects are at absolute zero temperature no molecular change occurs because no movement occurs making time cease since it is measured by the rate of movement.

I remember reading Hoyle in the early '50's. As a young child (born in '41) I found it very interesting: "Imagine the surface of a ballon with spots [galaxies] on it. As it gets bigger they move further away from one another. I believe new ones just appear to fill in the spaces ... ". Pretty heady stuff for a kid. 😎🎸🥃

As Carlos Santana sang, "life is just a passing parade", or Billy Joel, "life is just a series of hellos and good byes" or the Beach Boys, "God only knows". Thanks for the video, although the title was a little miss leading, in that I think I must have missed the bit about time being broken, but then again my PhD is in Industrial Relations history, so the social sciences, not mathematics.

You're from a state college but you're the realist out of all of these youtubers and you're honest about your forehead in your disclaimer. SUBBED!

Joe is truly entertaining and I really enjoy learning about theories that don't get much air time. That's really enjoyable to me. One thing we have expiremently confirmed is the CMB, this video probably should have touched on that.

@genostellar

11 ай бұрын

The CMB can be true with a big bang or with a causal set as both involve a universe expanding from something. So I'm not sure it's too important to bring up in this video as it doesn't provide evidence of one over the other. Though he could have touched on it to explain as much himself, I suppose.

@Marquis-Sade

11 ай бұрын

Whats a CMB?

@genostellar

11 ай бұрын

@@Marquis-Sade Cosmic Mircowave Background.

@dayegilharno4988

11 ай бұрын

:) I'm just here because I can relate to his forehead...

@letsomethingshine

11 ай бұрын

What about the Higg’s Boson? Isn’t that a “gravity particle” though?

I’ve recently been using results from causal set theory in a knowledge representation domain - the mathematical structure is really useful in a bunch of other ways! I’d been meaning to try and get a better understanding of the physics application but hadn’t got around to it yet, so this was timely! Thanks for the great introduction.

@fss1704

11 ай бұрын

Try construct theory, and read some from chiara marletto

Had me at the disclaimer. LOL

*throws head back and laughs in entropy*

I can honestly say most of what to talk about slightly confuses me but definitely enjoy learning more as like a sponge absorb the knowledge you give me.

That did break my brain, it still gives me dread, regardless of which theory to choose from it invokes infinity, not that there's a difference between infinity and very very very large universe for someone who only can travel at 140 miles a second.

@Persun_McPersonson

11 ай бұрын

The craziness goes beyond just sheer size, because this sense of infinity actually applies to speed just as much as size; as in, what speed we're traveling at is actually relative to how far you zoom out our existence, so it's not true that we're _only_ travelling at 220 Km/s (140 mi/s), which is specifically at the level  of the solar system travelling through the galaxy. At the lowest level we care about, we're travelling at whatever speed we happen to be moving at as individuals at Earth-life level. Going beyond our base perception of reality, we're moving at 0.46 Km/s or 460 m/s in terms of Earth's rotation, 30 Km/s in terms of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, and the Milky Way itself (skipping the solar system since it's already been mentioned) is travelling through the universe at around 370 Km/s. This just keeps going and going.

@Rapiddrive1

11 ай бұрын

Don’t worry. It’s all relative.

@champagnemls

11 ай бұрын

I am trying to find a relationship between all these theories and dreams. Dreams which warn you at that specific time or another date in the future. I know sounds weird and difficult to explain myself in any language.

@Vaeldarg

11 ай бұрын

@@champagnemls If you've ever been barely awake, you can probably imagine how bad the quality of thoughts can become if had even less energy. Dreams are the brain still attempting to think, including making predictions, with minimum energy available to it while the body is conserving energy during sleep.

@champagnemls

11 ай бұрын

@@Vaeldarg not sure what you mean but I do not think that brain ever stops thinking. We are just aware or not aware.

Whether it's steady state theory or Quantum, or whatever, if we weren't here to view or experience time, then it really wouldn't matter. Joe Scott, you're great with these videos. Keep them streaming ✌😊

@genostellar

11 ай бұрын

True, but we are here and we are really curious. What doesn't matter to the universe quickly becomes a crisis for us, heh.

@justinwatson1510

11 ай бұрын

It always makes me happy to see people acknowledging an inherent meaning to life without invoking a god.

Respect for sponsor at the end of video. Thank you sir.

This reminds me when i was studying programming : My teacher said do not ask questions this is how it is and just follow what previous believe to true and while their is a consensus you cant debate if not create your own language and hope other follows and agree with your thinking....

1:39 Yes, although one of the old mystic ideas is that the material universe grew from a "seed" (and there can be many "seeds" resulting in different universes according to this idea). In this sense then the Big Bang was not so much a "creation" event but more like a "crystallisation" or "phase transition" in the pre-existing form of matter (different than what we know as "elementary particles"). It's interesting that those ideas are so old, really the only thing people in ancient times didn't know was how to _quantify_ things (which enables modelling and predicting) but otherwise they were quite original in their thinking.

Thanks for breaking this down, Joe! Always love your videos (and they inspire me to improve my own videos!)

I love this. Please keep posting your great content!

Good stuff all around 😅

My friends and I just had a discussion about if darkness actually exists and this whole thing makes me think of that. Super interesting. I have always loved the discussion on time.

@ClosestNearUtopia

11 ай бұрын

Well yes and no, darkness, the absent of light, i mean its not like some big light bulb emits darkness, is it? Same counts for coldness. Coldness, the absent of warmth. Its not like we “cool” stuff, we extract heath out of it.. 🤷idk I think its more an idea of such phenomena being present or not, or something in between. And we can use those by extracting them or placing them around us as an energy source in some way.

I remember scientists saying, “Many people misunderstand the idea of the Big Bang. It did not happen at one point - it happened everywhere all at once.” That always stuck with me. We still hear it every once in a while. Seems to me that the idea of a singularity is an example of a kind of sloppiness, or laziness, an unwillingness to really grapple with the evidence, concepts and issues. Or, a kind of hype, or sensationalism.

@GreenBlueWalkthrough

11 ай бұрын

Yeah... also if there is big bangs everywhere why are all the galaxies moving in the same general direction? Also why have we not detacted more then one big bang? Which I believe their math is correct it's their asumestions are wrong... Which you can easily fix by throwing in Time is eternal and has existed before the universe and will after the universe... Which again is a "Biblical" concept like the big bang and solar system formation...

@Yamyatos

11 ай бұрын

Im reasonably sure you misunderstood that statement. Or i misunderstood you. They were refering to how the singularity was all there is, and it expanded. The big bang is still happening, and is still happening everywhere, as it always did. There is nothing "outside" of it, it just used to be a lot smaller.

@joedance14

11 ай бұрын

@@Yamyatos I understand what you are saying - the expansion is still ongoing... - but the physicists and astronomers who made this kind of remark were very clear - there was no singularity.

@Yamyatos

11 ай бұрын

@@joedance14 Im not a physicist, so it's safe to assume most of them know better than we do, but there is always people who disagree, and sometimes for bad reasons too. Just think about all the religious scientists who disagree with stuff like evolution for no good reason. As a non-physicist it's hard to get a good idea of what the scientific consensus actually says and what is only individuals opinions. To my understanding the singularity is an implication of the universes expansion. The latter is pretty much a fact, and if you trace it back, you end up with a single point. I'm not sure how exactly we arrived at the conclusion that it's a singularity in the first place. I'd have to look that up. We did however start with larger estimates, several light years, which then were corrected downwards each time we learned something new, until the current conclusion would be the singularity. In that sense, it would be kinda funny if later theories re-adjust the estimation back upwards tho.

@joedance14

11 ай бұрын

@@Yamyatos “...if you trace it back, you end up with a single point.” Yes, if you extrapolate, without constraints, without any sense of the applicable range. In other words, if you take it to the extreme. But known physics do not work in that range, so why would we take it back to the extreme? An analogy: many(? some?) physicists who immigrated from the former USSR in the early 1990s found work on Wall Street, and developed new models for trading on stock markets, commodities markets, etc. Those models were valid over a certain range of values, under certain conditions. But markets changed, the economy changed, and Wall Street, as well as most big investment firms, kept using the same models. Which contributed directly or indirectly to market crashes, recessions, etc. A growing number of scientists are suggesting new ideas about Einstein’s theories, quantum physics, dark matter, quantum foam, virtual particles, modified gravity, universes “bubbling up” from the quantum foam, axions, Bose-Einstein Condensate, etc. The idea that the universe started as a singularity, then grew/changed/exploded/expanded/inflated...strikes me as an over simplification. That’s all I was trying to say.

the threads and it’s tangles, doing and undoing like breath

Great video. Even better disclaimer.

I loved the brain bit, although mine dribbled out. I like the idea of time having no beginning or end. I'm not a scientist, but the heat death of the universe is terrifying and maybe this means things will go on and on forever, which is comforting for me.

I think the biggest question we have to ask is: can we see Joe put his brain back in?

Your humility is refreshing in a world growing towards entropy, with it's declining simple common sense or rational culture focus on never being wrong enough to admit it, to grow and change without obsessions for status or image and guilt to push a ridiculous equity hustle for diverse inclusion for lacking the effort of merit and hard work.

Love your content you are amazing thanks..

Good as always! A minor thing- Hoyle's Steady State was a complicated kludge to allow the universe to be expanding yet static with an unchanging density. Whatever was before the Big Bang it wasn't Hoyle's Steady State.

@user-pt8zt8ip3b

11 ай бұрын

10 điểm 💥✨

Thanks, Joe... breaking my brain just before a holiday! Now, I need an adult beverage to remove all this from my head. As always... great content!

Planck length's of time or space, don't actually mean that nothing is smaller. It just means we can't measure or use anything in a meaningful way smaller than that limit. It's so small that any event below that of any scale is effectively considered the same, or that it is completely unobservable/ non-interactive. There absolutely no reason to assume that it's impossible for things smaller than those scales to be possible, and thus a infinitesimally smaller universe the further back in time, doesn't require a discrete beginning event as we would understand it. It's like that curve on a graph that gets closer to zero but never quite touches it.

I feel glad that I'm in this space and time where I can watch your video explaining this theory right here on my phone, while I'm in bed 🌃 by you, this big brain-squishing explanation is made much easier to understand 😂 thanks, Joe for another mind-boggling video! 😂

Thank you for another great video; my brain fell out of my head as well. Have a safe and happy Fourth of July.

I never really liked the idea of a start to the universe or for that matter an end. It seems to me that searching for the ultimate beginning and end of everything is only seen as useful and important to us as humans because we are conditioned to think that way by our own individual finite existence. In any case its always seemed a futile proposition because once you conceive of a beginning you are still left with the question of what existed before that point. If you answer is nothing, then how does something come from nothing. Conceptually I think it's easier to just accept that it's always been there in one form or another and ever will remain so.

@simpleanswer8954

8 ай бұрын

It isn't an issue of humans viewing everything as finite because we are. It's an issue of viewing everything as finite because everything we can observe IS finite. Stars, black holes, all of it. All finite. We look for things to be finite because so far almost all evidence of anything points that direction.

@tw8464

6 ай бұрын

If something exists, then how can nothing exist?

This makes a lot of sense or at least allows us to continue to be aggressively curious.

I understood some of these words. Not a lot, but some

Joe? The phrase, just give us one miracle and we'll take it from there!, was proof one need not understand to explain like a genius. This was pure genius, you at your pure honest best. And the brain ejection moment! Wonderment and instantly satisfying content! Thanks as always Joe! Yours, Sam

Thanks JOE🎉❤

Most of this went past me, but I always thought that even if we lived in a totally vacant universe there would still be intervals of time like seconds, minutes, and hours. I guess not.

@basedgamerguy818

9 ай бұрын

Time is a physical dimension

@Infinityc702

9 ай бұрын

@@basedgamerguy818where is it

@basedgamerguy818

9 ай бұрын

@@Infinityc702 space and time aren't 2 different dimensions there is spacetime. We know time is physical and not a mental construct because it passes at different rates from the point of view of different observers. If you are in a spaceship traveling at a high rate of speed with an accurate clock that uses a photon to measure the passage of time from your perspective time is constant but from my reference frame time it has to move in a diagonal thus it moves further and from my perspective slows down.

@Infinityc702

9 ай бұрын

@@basedgamerguy818 didn’t understand anything u said

@basedgamerguy818

9 ай бұрын

@@Infinityc702 to be honest that's a u problem. Try looking up Einstein relativity

i find it somehow comforting imagining many physical universes existing next to each other.

I’ve wondered about the idea of thinking about time less as a line or plane but as a rate similar to heat, in which time is the measurement at which elements are able to interact with one another

As he points out the practical effects of the passage of time are observable. Do we really need a series of experiments proving all mater decays or that we live in a cause and effect universe.

I think it was Stephen Hawking who said time had to have a beginning, otherwise there would be an infinite amount of time before anything ever happened, which is impossible. I still find that argument compelling.

For years I've always imagined this with what I've seen. I don't know any of the math but it just clicks and makes sense. I just started calling it the bubble theory in my mind. It's intuitive to me.

Love the knock your brain into your hand trick. Spontaneous laughter!

@GrimmShadowsII

11 ай бұрын

Yeah I was feeling that way too then he knocked his brain out and I was like, "YEP that's how I'm feeling."

In the novel Tau Zero, Poul Anderson, talks about a universe continually cycling through “big bangs”.

I wonder how this theory explains the (appearant) randomness of entangled particles which's wave function collapse. Especially as this has experimentally been proven to be "random" and us being completely unable to influence it in any sort of way. (at least iirc) If everything is based around a form of cause and effect, and/or is steady state, shouldn't this be (able to be) influenced in some ways? And if it *can* be influenced, wound't that mean that suddenly information can be transferred between these points faster than light... which is kind of impossible because a few other cans of worms?

7:48... 😁😁😁... Correlation does not equal causation, it is something to pay attention too... Synchronicities let you know you are on the right path.